Bio Major Pre-med Difficulty

[norcalguy]

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After two years here, I still just don’t understand why all these hundreds of pre-meds at Cornell don’t just go to a SUNY school, get great grades, get into good med schools and have a better time while they’re at it.

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<p>umm…because you can come to Cornell, get a world-class education, get good grades, get into good med schools, and have a great time while you’re at it?</p>

<p>You can make this argument about any top college. Why in the world do people still go to schools like Harvard or Cornell when they can go to their state schools and coast through 4 years? And yet top med schools are still chocked full of Ivy grads.</p>

<p>The OP is interested in Columbia Med. Despite being a NY school, do you know how many SUNY premeds matriculated at Columbia last year? TWO. DOS. 2. All of the SUNY’s combined. # of Cornellians listed in their handbook as the Class of 2011? 9. I’ll take my chances with Cornell.</p>